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Location:
24° 54' 14.1" S 152° 31' 59.3" E
Depth:
7.7m (15.0m)
Deployment Date:
23/09/2000
Details:
This is one
of two identical 16-year-old Lightships, each weighing
140 tonnes and measuring 24 metres on length and 8
metres in width. The "Breaksea Spit Lightships" were
like small floating lighthouses and marked the position
of the Breaksea Spit, which is the northern extremity of
world heritage listed Fraser Island. Fraser Island is
the largest sand island in the world, and lies to the
south-east of Bundaberg. When new, each lightship cost
1.2 million dollars! They used an acetylene beacon
powered by 90 "G" size cylinders each, the light from
which could be seen for about 17 nautical miles. They
are now known as "Lightship 1" and "Lightship II", and
act like beacons to welcome a wide variety of marine
life to a new home on the Cochrane Artificial Reef. |
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